What are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

"La Guitarra en el Barroco del Perú" - Javier Echecopar Mongilardi. guitar

[Florestan]

  Fair enough Sarge. That said the marvelous playing continues well into vol.2, rich full bodied sound, Philips did a wonderful job mastering this complete set.

  Happy Listening

  marvin

One of the best supermegaboxes, a strong contender for THE best ever.

[San Antone]

[Sergeant Rock]

Vaughan Williams Symphony No.9 E minor, Boult conducting the LPO (Mmmmm...saxophones)




Sarge

[Papy Oli]

Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue (Dutoit, Montreal SO)

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[Mister Sharpe]

I've enjoyed this disk for five or six years and with every play my admiration for it grows.  Vox Humana is a German amateur (they said it, I didn't) choir based in Gompoldskirchen, Austria, under the extraordinary direction of Wolfgang Ziegler (his father founded the group in 1966).  A surprisingly eclectic, elegant, intelligent, moving, even amusing ("There was an old person of Cromer...") program.  One of the finest, if modest (or because of...?) performances of Poulenc's - "O magnum mysterium" I've ever heard, not to mention the Bruckner "Christus factus est," and... 

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(My cover's far more abstract than that depicted above but contains the same material and sez "Manufactured by Camerata Tokyo, Inc., Japan, 1994" and also "Made in Germany." Guess I won't strain my brain trying to reconcile that.)

[Papy Oli]

Reich- Drumming

[Sergeant Rock]

Reich- Drumming

I'm listening to, not the same music but music with a very similar cover   

Le Marteau sans Maitre, Boulez conducting that hard to spell group




Sarge

[Madiel]

I have personally only had positive [not necessarily universally overwhelming] reactions to Leif's music thus far. I feel more though that I am purchasing for the future more than the present as I know that his music will grow on me the more that I listen to it and understand it.

I keep having positive reactions at the micro-level (which is why I keep being willing to try more), and negative reactions at the macro-level (which is why I keep not adding any Leifs to the shopping list).

[Karl Henning]

Start your own cult. I'll be the first to sign up 

Sarge

"Won't be the first cult that started at GMG . . . ."

[Sergeant Rock]

"Won't be the first cult that started at GMG . . . ."

At least Brian's cult won't be full of nutters like the Mahler, Stockhausen and Havergalian cults 

Sarge (member in good standing in two of three GMG cults)

[San Antone]

Brahms 2nd PC
Richter; Liensdorf

[San Antone]

Now:

[Spineur]

Contrary to thefabulousalien I am about to go to bed !!

Takemitsu wrote some relatively difficult music, but also some very accessible stuff.  Nostalgia, his concerto for viola (A String around Autumn), some of this chamber music comes to my mind.

His songs are also perfectly tonal melodies, giving a totally enjoyable musical experience

[Kontrapunctus]

[San Antone]

A delightful recording

[André]

There's a bit of a theme here...

And ?

I'm far from a Nagano fan and I had no high hopes that this set of symphonies would be to my taste (I started with the single pairing the two F major works).

Much to my surprise it has come to be my favourite cycle, midway between zippy, vibratoless interprétations and grand, propulsive "modern" ones (we all know that anything that's slow is now hopelessly passé  ). And it worked, much better than Vänskä Minnesota or Rattle Berlin.

Not exactly cheap, but very affordable. It's smartly performed and very, very well recorded.

[André]

I'm currently pruning my collection. 8 boxes packed so far, close to 700 discs and going. First to go are the multiple versions of much collected music. Then stuff I rather like but that is unlikely to find its way to the cd player again before at least 4-5 years. Finally, music I have found to be futile or simply out of my realm. In some cases I'm giving it a last chance. This is one of them:



Originally (can't find a recent pic):



I know there are people who appreciate, maybe even like Scelsi (I can't think he can be loved). Well, if they come in Montreal, they may find this set in the "used" bins of Midtown record stores !

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

At least Brian's cult won't be full of nutters like the Mahler, Stockhausen and Havergalian cults 

Sarge (member in good standing in two of three GMG cults)

Wait, Havergalian cult and Brian cult? wut? Havergal Brian cult? who? what?

[André]

Although neither the book case or the liner notes mention it, these are the transcriptions made by Rudolf Barshai of quartets 8 and 10.

Extraordinary stuff, wonderfully played and recorded.